🥟 Chao-Down #134 Stereotypes and bias get magnified with Generative AI, Publishers like NYTimes look to sue AI giants for billions, Bing Chat is coming to Google Chrome and Safari

Today’s the last day to get in your submission for the Semantic Kernel Plugin hackathon! If you’re seeing this before July 25th, 5 PM PST, you can still make a submission! We’ve announced some more prizes and are excited to see what the community creates!

And if you’re not able to join this one, don’t worry! We plan to run the event again in the future with more thematic challenges.

Happy hacking!

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

Publishers want billions, not millions, from AI (Semafor)

How AI Like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard is Being Used in Finance (Bloomberg)

Bing Chat is coming to Google Chrome and Safari (The Verge)

Qualcomm Works with Meta to Enable On-device AI Applications Using Llama 2 (Qualcomm)

Generative AI Takes Stereotypes and Bias From Bad to Worse (Bloomberg)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Paving the Path for “Blue-Collar AI” Professionals (Medium)

dabeaz-course/python-mastery: Advanced Python Mastery (course by @dabeaz) (Github)

Introduction to dimensionality reduction - Blog | (Hex)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

jmorganca/ollama: Get up and running with large language models locally (Github)

guoyww/AnimateDiff: AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning. (Github)

AlignDet: Aligning Pre-training and Fine-tuning in Object Detection (liming-ai.github.io)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

OpenLMLab/LEval: Data and code for L-Eval, a comprehensive long context language models evaluation benchmark (Github)

Investigating the Factual Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models with Retrieval Augmentation (arxiv)

jspenmar/slowtv_monodepth: Official repository for the ICCV2023 paper "Kick Back & Relax: Learning to Reconstruct the World by Watching SlowTV" (Github)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

TikTok is adding text posts (The Verge)

Lyft, the Largest Bikeshare Operator in North America, Wants Out of the Business (Vice)

IRS halts most unannounced visits to taxpayers from revenue officers (CNBC)

Banks serving as guinea pigs for Federal Reserve’s instant payments system (Ars Technica)

Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites (Ars Technica)

Flip phones are having a moment — and all eyes are on Samsung now (The Verge)

One Last Bite 😋